Malta

Migrants aboard the charity rescue ship Aquarius will be transferred to a patrol boat in international waters and taken to Malta, before being sent to four other European Union states, the Maltese government said on Tuesday.

Via Reuters – The European Union should step up funding for the United Nation's migration agency to return migrants stranded in Libya to their home countries further south in Africa, the bloc's current president says. The proposal by Malta, a frontline state for migrants, was presented to the other 27 members …